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Program Overview

Obesity is a highly-prevalent disease among primary care patients. Recent changes in the healthcare system, including The Affordable Care Act, have mandated practicing healthcare providers to provide adequate treatment and counseling for patients with obesity and who are overweight. In turn, this has created a tremendous opportunity in primary care practices to grow through improved management of these patients.

The Center for Medical Weight Loss’ primary mission is to empower healthcare providers to more effectively treat patients with obesity and weight problems. This program has been designed to provide physicians with the strategies to improve patient engagement and outcomes. This program will provide information and tools to seamlessly integrate an obesity medicine practice within your primary care practice and effectively counsel patients more effectively while increasing your weight loss patient program engagement.

This program is highly valuable for any primary care healthcare provider that is interested in treating obesity in their practice.

Target Audience

This educational initiative has been designed for primary care, internal medicine, and family physicians and other healthcare providers involved in the management of patients who are overweight or obese.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

Describe key considerations for the management of obesity in primary care practices

Discuss changes in reimbursement that the Affordable Care Act has mandated for obesity treatment

Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of Integrity Continuing Education, Inc. and The Center for Medical Weight Loss. Integrity Continuing Education is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation

Integrity Continuing Education designates this enduring material for up to 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Integrity Continuing Education, Inc. requires instructors, planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified conflicts of interest are thoroughly vetted by Integrity Continuing Education, Inc. for fair balance, scientific objectivity of studies mentioned in the materials or used as the basis for content, and appropriateness of patient care recommendations.

The faculty/planners reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of these CME activities:

Patima Tanapat, PhD, has no financial interests/relationships or affiliations in relation to this activity.

Michael Kaplan, DO

Consultant: Novo Nordisk, Vivus

Directions to Learner

There are no fees for participating in this activity. During the period of October 2, 2014, through October 2, 2016, participants must:

• Read the learning objectives and faculty disclosure• Complete the pretest• Study the educational activity• Complete the posttest and evaluation form

Integrity Continuing Education

For questions about the accreditation of this activity, please contact Integrity Continuing Education at 855-835-4004 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. Integrity Continuing Education and Center for Medical Weight Loss do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of Integrity Continuing Education and Center for Medical Weight Loss. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

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Disclaimer

The information provided at this activity is for continuing education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a physician relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient's medical condition.